Resistance on Capitol Hill to sale of arms to RUC
US-UK RELATIONS:THE NEED for US congressional approval for the sale of American arms to the RUC was raised by US president Jimmy Carter in discussions with the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979, according to confidential files released today in Belfast.
The revelation is contained in a dispatch from the British embassy in Washington to the foreign and colonial office in London on December 22nd, 1979.